I have two datasets that I wish to relate together using the company name. The problem is the same company may have a slightly different name in each the two datasets.
What I want to do is for each company name in dataset A, find the 'nearest' n matches to it in dataset B. e.g. If I have 'Alkool Inc.', the nearest matches could be: Alcool Alcool inc AlKool Partners KB Alkoool Akool Ltd. etc.... I've looked into SOUNDEX but this doesn't work as the initial letters may be different. A variation of SOUNDEX could work if it always returned n 'closest' matches though.... Is such a thing possible? MySQL full-text searching is out as I'm using InnoDB tables. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks! Edward -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
